I am tired of hearing the same tirade over and over again that the Congress did nothing for seventy years. So I am sharing this post. I’m just a citizen who feels it is an insult to the nation and the citizens each time someone says our country has been no good over the last 70 years and I think we should acknowledge the good that has been done and move forward to betterment instead of pulling down, deriding, downplaying and sneering the past!
As a citizen of the country I felt this message has to be conveyed to our nation. This country under the British rule for more than 190 years. The people were living subserviently. Congress came to power in 1947 after Independence and started with nearly zero. There was nothing much. India didn’t even have the resources to manufacture anything since the British left India since a lot of the wealth was taken away.
Electricity was available only in 20 villages across the country. Telephone facilities were available only to 20 rulers (kings) in this country. There was no drinking water supply. There were only 10 small dams. There were no hospitals, no educational institutions (except for some Christian missionary schools and hospitals, tea plantations, roads, bridges, railways, drainage system in some areas, but for the vast country, it was not enough). However, no fertilizers, feeds, and no water supply for cultivation. There were no jobs & steep starvation in the country. There were many infant deaths and very few military jawans at the border. India had only 4 planes, 20 tanks & fully open borders on all 4 sides of the country with very minimum roads and bridges. They left an empty exchequer. Nehru came to power under those circumstances.
What is India after 60 years ? India has the world’s 4th largest Army… hundreds of war planes, tanks, missiles, various types of guns. Lakhs of industrial institutions are mushrooming all over. There is electricity in almost all villages with hundreds of electric power stations. There are lakhs of kilometers of national highways and over bridges. There are new railway projects, stadiums, super specialty hospitals. Most of the Indian households have television, telephone or mobiles freely available for all the country people. There is sophisticated infrastructure to work in and outside the country, there are banks, universities, AIMS, IITS, IIMS,nuclear weapons, sub-marines, nuclear stations, ISRO, and Navarathna Public sector units.
The computer era bloomed in India through the meticulous efforts of Congress under Rajiv Ganjiv making India a top tech nation and giving jobs to millions. Our tech giants rose out of this movmement, never forget. Computers came to rural India through this powerful networking and the job opportunities were opened in not only in India but all over the globe. We are now using information technology big time globally.
India became polio free through meticulous efforts of the government over years, and also smallpox free through vaccine drives over the decades. Polio unlike COVID-19 had a different system of serving as it administered vaccines for babies and children Sundays, throughout India reaching the rural heartlands.
The economic reforms of Manmohan Singh ji lifted millions (271 million) of Indians above the poverty line and eradicated starvation (credit to others too).
Congress revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry by making pharmaceutical drugs cheap and affordable all over including internationally. This is why drugs today could be sent over to different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indian-Pak victory where one lakh soldiers and military commanders surrendered to the Indian army. India started exporting minerals & food items, and other goods. Bank nationalization was started by Mrs. Indira Gandhi.
India was one of the top 10 economies in the world. Apart from this, GSLV, Mangalyan, (The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan is a space probe orbiting Mars with its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), Monorail, Metro rail, International airports, Prithvi, Agni, Naag, Nuclear submarines….all these were achieved before 2014.
I also endorse the Congress for upholding the Constitution with integrity. The Congress is not a person, but an ideology, an ideology can never die for those who want a secular, inclusive nation of acceptance for all kinds of people.” Jai Hind!
Rita
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